Comments on: Best seller list July 1-Sep 30, 2007

By: Nicky

Nicky — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:00:31 +0000

Hmmm. I often read about books on your web site, click through to read about them on amazon.com – then go off and find them on amazon.co.uk to get them locally. I think you ought to tie amazon down to a pay-by-click, not just a confirmed buy! I did get Good Calories/Bad Calories from amazon.com, though – 2 UKP cheaper and several months early, thanks to the weak dollar!

Hi Nicky–

I do the same thing with books from my beloved Spectator magazine published in the UK. I find books reviewed there, then go to Amazon.co.uk and order them before they’re in print over here. Sometimes they never make it into print here, so Amazon.co.uk is the only way I can get them. But I have the opposite situation. Because of the weak dollar it costs me a fortune to get books from the UK, especially the shipping.

I don’t think I can get Amazon to buy into a pay-per-click. It would be nice, though.

Cheers–

MRE

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:12:02 +0000

Huh. I’ll have to remember to click through your site next time then. Especially since 60% of the books on your list are on my wish list, and your blog is where I got a bunch of them.

Thanks, Brad–

I appreciate it.

Cheers–

MRE

By: Esther

Esther — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:16:28 +0000

I didn’t know about the Amazon link either but will be going through it from now on when I order. Loved the comment about us having clean minds to go along with our healthy diets.

Thanks in advance.

MRE

By: Wil B.

Wil B. — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:47:49 +0000

Hi Dr. Mike. This is my second try at a comment because I forgot about the new anti-spam procedure on the first try. In case you haven�t seen it, Malcolm Kendrick published a recent editorial on statin drug overuse. Here�s the link that I got from the Thincs website.
http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/pdfplus/10.2217/17460875.2.5.481
As usual, he manages to explain this in just two pages (the third page is bibliography) in a manner that is highly readable and that almost anyone can understand.

BTW, I plan to do all my future Amazon ordering through your website now that I know about this capability. As others have expressed, the public service you provide is important to us regular denizens of your website. I just hope more people will discover you sooner rather than later.

Best regards,
Wil

Hi Wil–

Thanks for the Kendrick piece. I hadn’t seen it. And thanks for the future Amazon.com orders.

Cheers–

MRE

By: Grandma Ann

Grandma Ann — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:54:18 +0000

If I had only known! I buy stuff from Amazon all the time. I bought the first four books on your list (and have enjoyed or am enjoying reading all of them, thank you) but not through your site. To make up for it, I have just placed an order for a bunch of classical music CDs. I can probably generate more than a few pennies for you.

I’d love to hear what you have to say on “the whole hyperinsulinemia-cortisol issue.”

Hi Grandma Ann–

I appreciate it, and my web guy appreciates it. If I get enough Amazon action maybe he’ll get paid a little more quickly.

Cheers–

MRE

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:20:26 +0000

Talking about the mainstream media – they did a lot to hammer the low-fat message as the way to go!

Very true.

By: Theresa (in Sweden)

Theresa (in Sweden) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:36:34 +0000

Let’s imagine what would have happened had this whacky consensus on the low-fat’s-the-way-to-go had been all different. If the experiment had gone the other route.. Imagine we had kept and spread the “knowledge” that housewives had, that bread and potatoes make you fat. Would there have been no obesity epidemic, then? And would people have eaten less refined carbs (but not necessarily extreme low-carb) and that would have done it. Is the extreme low-carb some of us do now, just a remedial way of eating because we have first ruined our bodies with refined carbs?

Another thought. There are literally thousands of recipe books out there, with low-carb food. I feel I really need to buy one, because my 3 rotating dishes are getting boring. But when I look in the Atkins book I have from the library, almost every recipe has parts of what I consider frankenfoods. Sweeteners, sugar alcohols, soy stuff, TM bake mixes (containing God knows what) carb controlled tortilla wraps (if it’s not carbs, then what is it?) and so on and so forth. Is there any chance of finding a cook book with recipes void of those? I don’t need to eat fake pie crust, I can eat the filling only. But show me yummy recipes for it! When it comes to low-carb, Sweden is a big white area…

Hi Theresa–

I don’t know if it’s available in Sweden or not, but I don’t think Protein Power has recipes with all the junk it them. I’m not really into the recipes in other books, so I’m probably not the best person to ask.

Cheers–

MRE

By: Marilyn Leahy

Marilyn Leahy — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:34:35 +0000

Please let Gary know that all his time and care on this book was not wasted. I have read it three times now and am doing my best to memorize it. I find that I am surrounded by such “experts” like doctors and dietitians that the best I can do is fire off a few bombshells before they tune me out entirely.

Thanks for the ammo and I will keep trying to send out the sound bites (sniping?) that may undermine their fat headed faith at last.

Hi Marilyn–

I’ll pass the message along to him. I’m sure he will be pleased to hear it given the hassle he’s been given by the mainstream media.

Cheers–

MRE

By: mrfreddy

mrfreddy — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:21:08 +0000

looking forward to Gary Taubes on Larry King Live this Friday… Low fat bozos Weil, Oz, and other are supposed to appear as well.

It will be interesting. I’ve heard from Gary that the interview was kind of a farce. As I understood it, there was a guest host. Gary will also be responding to the Gina Kolata trash job in the NY Times Book Review on Oct. 28.

Cheers–

MRE

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:49:33 +0000

Hi Doc-

Forget everything Taubes has written – here’s why everyone is fat http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21340725/from/ET/wid/11915773?gt1=10514

Have fun!!

Dave

Hi Dave–

It’s the ol’ Thrifty Gene Hypothesis writ large despite the fact that the scientist who came up with the Thrifty Gene Hypothesis disowned it himself as not fitting the newly discovered facts. But government committees never let something like that stand in the way of their stupidity.

Cheers–

MRE